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17 April 2015

Moody's seminars for Q2 2015

A new crop of Moody's training seminars are now available. All courses are available in-house and customisation can be discussed. Email trainingemea@moodys.com (Middle East) or trainingasiapac@moodys.com (Asia Pacific) with enquiries.

This intermediate level seminar provides delegates with an in-depth understanding of the rating practices employed by the Moody's Investors Service for assessing corporate credit risk – from rating methodologies and financial ratios to a rating committee simulation.

This is an overview seminar that brings participants
through all stages of the credit process – from obligor analysis, making
credit decisions, monitoring credits, and identifying and acting on the
early warning signs of deteriorating credit quality, to managing
problem credits and mitigating loss during debt restructurings and
workouts.

The course will draw on the insight, research, and rating
methodologies of Moody's, and participants will be given practical tools which will serve as work aides when they are back in the field.

This
seminar provides participants with a foundation of skills that
helps them reach sound, reliable judgments of a company's
creditworthiness. Applying a structured framework, delegates will be
able to identify and assess key qualitative and quantitative factors in
determining credit risk.

The
seminar will focus on covenants and other features designed to protect
investor interests and emphasise ways in which these defensive tools can
be undermined by creative drafting. Moody's methodology for evaluating
covenants in bond indentures will be discussed, and participants will
learn how Moody's framework for assessing covenant quality can be
applied to their daily work.

This seminar explores the importance of cash flow analysis in the credit
assessment process. In addition, it reviews credit risk issues of
companies with international activities and the challenges of dealing
with off-balance sheet and contingent liabilities. It also introduces
the concepts of corporate valuation and its usefulness for assessing
company solvency.